Martin Gore Quotes
When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
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Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.
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When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
